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In Reply to: UNUMProvident has compared itself to WorldCom, Enron, K-Mart posted by Dave61599 on October 05, 2002 at 02:17:48:
: Just for thought When reading UNUMProvident's own material find out what the real facts are before you consider it to be the truth. There have been federal judges that have made remarks about UNUMProvident truthfullness.
: The folowing is from a Press Release of 12/25/2002 you can use the edit highligt the link, click on copy, go to adderess, delete address and past.
: This is just my interpatation of what Fortune 500 was claiming about the #10 companys on the list.
: http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/020925/250050_1.html
: "UnumProvident was named one of Fortune's top ten most admired insurance companies.(2)" UnumProvident Corporation has operations in the United States, Canada, the U.K., Japan, and elsewhere around the world. Company headquarters is in Chattanooga, Tenn. with significant U.S. operations in Portland, Maine; Worcester, Mass.; and Glendale, Calif. For more
: UNUMProvident claimed That they were one of AMERICA'S MOST ADMIRED " insuance" COMPANIES in a press Release issued Wednesday 9/25/2002.
: They were 10TH out of a list of 10. They just compaired themselves to companys such as Enron, WorldCom, and Kmart. Thease companys were also in the most admired company list in there industery.
: Companys get in this list by being one off the 10 largest
: companys in their industry. UNUMProvident got there because
: they were #8 in size, but was rated worst of the list.
: http://www.fortune.com/lists/mostadmired/indsnap_30.html
: AMERICA'S MOST ADMIRED COMPANIES
: 2002 All-Stars
: View list by: Industry
: INDUSTRY: Insurance: Life, Health (stock)
: Rank Company Overall Score
: 1 Northwestern Mutual 7.63
: 2 TIAA-CREF 7.04
: 3 Mass. Mutual Life Ins. 6.97
: 4 New York Life Insurance 6.61
: 5 MetLife 6.50
: 6 AFLAC 6.47
: 7 Principal Financial 6.35
: 8 Prudential Financial 6.26
: 9 Guardian Life of America 6.18
: 10 UnumProvident 5.56
:
: http://www.fortune.com/lists/mostadmired/snap_1507.html
: AMERICA'S MOST ADMIRED COMPANIES DATA
: Eight Key Attributes of Reputation
: Insurance: Life, Health (stock)
: Company's Industry Score Industry Rank
: UNUMProvident insuance 5.56 10
:
: Innovativeness 5.68 9
: Employee talent 5.4 10
: Use of corporate assets 5.67 10
: Social responsibility 5.59 10
: Quality of management 5.52 10
: Financial soundness 5.37 10
: Long-term investment value 5.37 10
: Quality of products/services 5.86 10
: Note that UNUMProvident was rated 10TH out
: of 10 in 7 of the 8 Attributes and 9th in the
: other one.
:
: http://www.fortune.com/lists/mostadmired/indsnap_53.html
: INDUSTRY: Telecommunications
: Rank Company Overall Score
: 1 SBC Communications 7.30
: 2 Verizon Communications 5.94
: 3 BellSouth 5.89
: 4 Sprint 5.54
: 5 Comcast 4.99
: 6 Alltel 4.87
: 7 Nextel Communications 4.25
: 8 AT&T 4.23
: 9 Qwest Communications 4.22
: 10 WorldCom 4.18
: From the Mar. 04, 2002 Issue
:
: http://www.fortune.com/lists/mostadmired/snap_1884.html
: AMERICA'S MOST ADMIRED COMPANIES DATA
: Eight Key Attributes of Reputation
: Company's Industry Score Industry Rank
: WorldCom Telecommunications 4.18 10
: Innovativeness 4.6 8
: Employee talent 4.1 9
: Use of corporate assets 4.24 8
: Social responsibility 3.85 10
: Quality of management 3.79 9
: Financial soundness 4.02 8
: Long-term investment value 4.17 7
: Quality of products/services 4.69 9
:
: http://www.fortune.com/lists/mostadmired/indsnap_17.html
: INDUSTRY: Energy
: Rank Company Overall Score
: 1 Duke Energy 7.55
: 2 Dynegy 7.15
: 3 Williams 6.77
: 4 El Paso 6.73
: 5 Aquila 6.38
: 6 Reliant Energy 6.33
: 7 Mirant 6.29
: 8 NorthWestern 5.58
: 9 Avista 5.15
: 10 Enron 3.95
: http://www.fortune.com/lists/mostadmired/snap_478.html
:
: Eight Key Attributes of Reputation
: Company's Industry Score Industry Rank
: Enron Energy 3.95 10
: Innovativeness 6.68 3
: Employee talent 4.42 10
: Use of corporate assets 2.54 10
: Social responsibility 4.94 10
: Quality of management 3.03 10
: Financial soundness 1.97 10
: Long-term investment value 2.41 10
: Quality of products/services 5.62 10
: http://www.fortune.com/lists/mostadmired/indsnap_25.html
: AMERICA'S MOST ADMIRED COMPANIES DATA
: Company's Industry Score Industry Rank INDUSTRY: General Merchandisers
:
: Rank Company Overall Score
: 1 Target 7.77
: 2 Wal-Mart Stores 7.64
: 3 Kohl's 6.92
: 4 Federated Dept. Stores 6.58
: 5 May Dept. Stores 5.68
: 6 Sears Roebuck 5.38
: 7 J.C. Penney 5.36
: 8 Saks 4.51
: 9 Dillard's 3.45
: 10 Kmart 3.31
: http://www.fortune.com/lists/mostadmired/snap_749.html
: AMERICA'S MOST ADMIRED COMPANIES DATA
: Eight Key Attributes of Reputation
: Company's Industry Score Rank
: K-Mart General Merchandisers 3.31 10
:
: Innovativeness 3.48 9
: Employee talent 3.13 10
: Use of corporate assets 3.03 10
: Social responsibility 3.72 9
: Quality of management 3.94 9
: Financial soundness 2.71 10
: Long-term investment value 2.52 10
: Quality of products/services 3.94 10
:
: Dave
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